Slow and steady wins the race.

There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.

There is a force that somehow pushes us to choose the more difficult path whereby we can transcend the mire and muck into which we are so often born. Despite all that resists the process, we do become better human beings.

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

Against all odds and despite all the obstacles, we are going to make it.

The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance.

For great and low there's but one test: 'Tis that each man do his best.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

And, more importantly, reach for the stars. And realize that it is never too late—not now, not ever—for you to pursue you passion, your pursuit of perfection. And most importantly, your perseverance for making it happen.

Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

The heart's earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

I just want God’s will. And He’s allowed to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promise land . . . So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man.

The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.